TROLL LEVEL: TEXAS-SIZED! Greg Abbott Executes a Hilarious but Completely Necessary Troll Using Biden’s ‘Stimulus’ Money: “The money in Biden’s plan was purposely void of strings attached because the game was to shower blue states with money, allowing them to bail out their mismanaged budgets and perpetuate left-wing priorities. Abbott has turned that on its head, instead, using a significant portion of the money given to Texas to help build a border wall in his state.”
BRAVE NEW WORLD: In a dish, a mouse, crafted from stem cells, begins to form. “The tiny mouse embryo has a heart that beats. Its muscles, blood vessels, gut and nervous system are beginning to develop. But this embryo is unusual: It was made in a lab, out of mouse embryonic stem cells, and represents the most sophisticated in vitro (in a dish) model of a mammal ever so created.”
THE 21st CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: Mom says she’s “so proud” because her “15-year-old transgender son is going through menopause.”
STACY MCCAIN: Thank You, Officer Curtis Brown!
WELL, UNLIKE FAUCI, RAND PAUL HAS PRACTICED MEDICINE IN THE CURRENT MILLENNIUM: Rand Paul Blows Up Another Fauci Claim, This Time on the Delta Variant.
Also, he’s not a lying crapweasel.
WELL, MOST SENIORS DON’T HAVE TO GIVE A WHITE HOUSE PRESS CONFERENCE: Most cases of dementia in U.S. seniors go undiagnosed, study says.
SECTION 230 ISN’T ACTUALLY CARTE BLANCHE: Eugene Volokh: Interpreting 47 U.S.C. § 230(c)(2). “The statute immunizes computer services for ‘action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict … availability of material that the provider … considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected’—but what exactly does that mean?”
OCEANIA HAS NEVER BEEN AT WAR WITH YOUR LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENT. Andy McCarthy: Republicans Mustn’t Get Hoodwinked on ‘Defund the Police’ Pivot.
Obviously, it makes sense for Republicans to denounce the Biden administration over Jen Psaki’s ridiculous claim that it was the GOP that wanted to cut police funding, the White House’s . . . um . . . rationale being that opposition to the president’s economic wrecking ball of a stimulus proposal equals opposition to every individual item in that boondoggle — as if deciding not to buy the manse you can’t afford in the tony school district means you oppose public-school education.
Everyone knows it was Democrats who made “defund the police” a mantra — occasionally, even a litmus test of what it means to be a viable Democratic candidate or official these days (even as Democrats who championed the scrapping of police departments spent taxpayer funds on security guards for themselves).
Nevertheless, as I have pointed out before, the smarter progressives have never been in favor of defunding the police, never mind zeroing out their budgets to achieve a wholesale elimination of the police. They not only want full funding, but significantly increased funding levels.
But here’s the catch: They want to change the definition of what policing is.
The savvy Democrats know that, as violent-crime rates surge, the party is getting killed over its “defund the police” madness. There is nothing to be done about that in the short term: The Bolshevik Left has insisted that Democrats are dead serious about gutting law enforcement (AOC: “Defunding the police means defunding the police” — not “budget tricks or funny math”); and the “defund the police” rhetoric is associated in the public mind with the months of lethal rioting that began last spring, and that was led by Black Lives Matter and Antifa, for whom Democrats continue to provide cover.
Read the whole thing.
Yes, Democrats support defunding the police. pic.twitter.com/HHXgJPXw2m
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) June 29, 2021
PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: GOP Calls Democrats’ Bluff on the Capitol Riot. “Democrats are posturing as defenders of the peace, defenders of order, defenders of ‘the temple of democracy’ itself. Yet Democrats have a humongous gaping weakness when it comes to defending order, and Republicans are deftly moving to expose it.”
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE NEW FORD BRONCO?
NO, THEY’RE BURNING US: Is the Fed Getting Burned Again? “As in the stagflationary 1970s, the US Federal Reserve is once again denying that its own policies are the reason for a recent surge of inflation, even though there is good reason to think that they are. It is not too late to learn from past mistakes and reverse course – but the clock is quickly ticking down.”
DO YOU LIKE BIRDS? The Amish Hipster at Helen’s Page makes 3-D printed bird magnets and garden signs. It would make a fun gift for the bird-lover in your life.
FIGHT THE PATRIARCHY: Man Crowned Miss Nevada USA Because Men Are Apparently Better Women Than Real Women.
YOU KNEW THIS WAS COMING: Next, House Democrats want to raise their own pay.
WHEN SILENCE SPEAKS VOLUMES: NBA, Nike, Apple, Google Silent on China’s Crackdown on Journalists in Hong Kong.
THE POPULATION BOMB DOOMSDAY SCAM:
Much worse were the activities of repressive foreign governments in Africa, China, Egypt, India, and Central America, which bought into the primal screams of Western academics and imposed gruesome population control programs — including strapping women to metal tables and performing forced abortions and sterilizations to reduce births. China’s ghastly one-child policy led to millions of sex selection abortions and infanticides. Tens of millions of girls in China went missing.
Yet, in the name of “saving the planet,” the U.S. government and the UN applauded these inhumane tactics — and even helped finance them. So much for women having control of their own bodies.
A second lesson here is the dangers of shutting off open and fact-based debate on environmental issues. The hero in exposing the Malthusian hoax was the late doomslayer economist Julian Simon — the father of one of your authors and the mentor of the other. When Simon and others challenged the myth of an overpopulated planet, they were berated in the media, the halls of Congress, and the university faculty lounges as “crazy” and “dangerous” for daring to challenge the “settled science” of overpopulation.
Shouldn’t this give us all pause when we hear this generation’s sages at the UN and the U.S. State Department (and now even the Biden Treasury Department) tell us that climate change is an “existential threat”? Shouldn’t this generation’s Julian Simons who dare question the oracles predicting catastrophic warming of the planet 50 and 100 years from now be heard from rather than being denounced as “science deniers” and erased from Twitter and Facebook?
Related: Earth Day predictions of 1970. The reason you shouldn’t believe Earth Day predictions of [2021].
Also 51 years on, to paraphrase the late Kathy Shaidle on Trump as Hitler, I’m already on (at least) my fourth apocalypse:
SOCIALISM KILLS BIRTH RATES: Pandemic may have created ‘baby bust’ instead of boom.
IF YOU’RE FREE TO PROTEST OPPRESSION, YOU AREN’T OPPRESSED: Gwen Berry Blasted For Anthem Protest: ‘Try This S***’ In ‘An Actually Oppressive Country.’
GAS PRICES HIT SEVEN YEAR HIGH AS STATIONS RUN LOW ON FUEL AHEAD OF JULY FOURTH.
Earlier: Biden to waive sanctions on Putin crony leading Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
And just like that, Biden* discovers an energy pipeline he supports.
Flashback: So is it fair to ask if Biden is on the payroll of Putin? As Walter Russell Mead wrote in 2017:
If Trump were the Manchurian candidate that people keep wanting to believe that he is, here are some of the things he’d be doing:
Limiting fracking as much as he possibly could
Blocking oil and gas pipelines
Opening negotiations for major nuclear arms reductions
Cutting U.S. military spending
Trying to tamp down tensions with Russia’s ally Iran.
“Yep,” Glenn added in late 2019. “You know who did do these things? Obama. You know who supports these things now? Democrats.”
* Yes, I know I spelled President Ron Klain incorrectly.
SHUT UP, THEY EXPLAINED: Big Tech Platform Silences Andy Ngo.
Ngo does real journalism, and our infotainment industry can’t abide that.
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Study: How people act when stressed key indicator for satisfaction in relationships.
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